Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD Launching 21 December

I wanted to first thank you all for your patience, it’s been a long wait I guess, but at the same time it’s been even longer for us. We’ve been working on Stranger’s Wrath, one way or another for around 15 months now. From the initial discussions, to actually starting work on the project true, to then getting it done!

As most of you may know we originally planned to release the game around Easter, to be able to do that we were to have started full development in September last year, but as it transpired, we didn’t actually start until April 2011, which gave us our hoped late Summer release; but we ended up spending another couple of months on it, so here we are DONE AND DUSTED for release.

As such I’m extremely pleased to announce that Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD will release across PAL on 21 December.

We had planned on shipping with 3DTV support, PS Move support and a few other little things, but due to time limits we are not able to bring those features in this version. However, we WILL be bringing them in an update in a couple months, along with some other little extras we’ve got planned.

One of things we’ve been asked a lot over the past few months is if Stranger’s Wrath HD has a Platinum trophy – of course it does! This is a big game and it can easily take at least 12+hrs to complete.

So here’s what’s updated in the HD version:

Characters

All 84 character models have been updated with increased polygon counts and higher resolution textures.

Wolvark Sloghandlers now release Slogs instead of Slegs.

Professor Dimble now has glasses and an academic tome.

New female voices have been recorded for two characters.

Made Blisterz Booty unkillable.

Environments

All environments have been given higher resolution textures.

Most vegetation has been updated with increased polygon counts and/or higher resolution textures.

A lot of environment now reflects in water where it didn’t before.

Many, many pipes and barrels rounded.

Easter Eggs added to the game.

Added Blisterz Booty’s broken crud gun to the floor by his bola’d body.

Sekto’s Office has been changed to more closely resemble than seen in the FMV.

Audio

All game audio (voice, sound effects and music) have been upgraded to 16-bit 44KHz from 8-bit 11KHz or less!

Support for 5.1, Dolby Digitial and DTS.

Display

Everything now runs at 720p, 60 FPS, widescreen.

All menus have been updated with a new design based on original unused concepts.

New posters now occupy the inventory menu when no bounty is accepted.

Difficulty

All armour upgrades now actually increase Stranger’s health.

Added difficulty levels to the game: Easy, Medium and Hard.

In easy mode:

Stranger has twice the health.

Enemies have half the health and stamina.

Enemies’ stamina recovers half as fast.

In Normal Mode:

Stranger’s health and armour for later in the game have been re-balanced.

In hard mode:

Stranger has a third less health.

Enemies stamina recovers a third quicker.

Unlockables

37 trophies: 23 bronze, 8 silver, 5 gold, 1 platinum.

37 pieces of unlockable Concept art.

5 unlockable movie.

And what will the cost be for all this HD awesomeness?! £9.99/€12.99

Once again, thanks for waiting as long as you have. We hope you’ll enjoy the game and, if the review scores we’re starting to get are anything to go by, you will!

Stewart, you made the right decision regarding the price. It’s essentially a niche title (in a world of COD), so to price it any higher would be dangerous.
I for one will be making the purchase and I hope you and your team will be rewarded for what appears to be a highly polished job.

I said to myself I had no interest in this but I kept taking a look at all the blog posts about it. I still said I wouldn’t buy it. But now… I’m buying it. Greatly enhanced graphics, reworked difficulty, taking time and effort to tweak what was wrong and make it better, upgrading audio, new dubbing, a platinum trophy and all for ยฃ10 (plus PSN+ discount)? Guys, you know how to woo a man.

took me 4 years to complete abe’s oddysee i was a dumb kid in that time but oh boy i loved all the 4 years. I havent played munch and stranger I will buy this for sure!! but my question is how much will it cost in swedish kronor? ๐

“We had planned on shipping with 3DTV support, PS Move support and a few other little things, but due to time limits we are not able to bring those features in this version. However, we WILL be bringing them in an update in a couple months, along with some other little extras weโve got planned.”

This is how you do a HD reboot of a game, well done guys. I don’t even know what this game is but I’ll be buying it as you took time to do proper work polishing it, and stuck a full trophey list in too – more then Capcom could be arsed to do with RE4.

I was so pissed when this went from ps2 exclusive, to not being released on ps2 at all.. Now I probably won’t get this untill there’s a pricecut or I’m bored, but I don’t see that happening with all the great games that have been released these last months..

If you guys do decide to make a new oddworld, please go back to the original 2D ones, those were great

abe was great on ps1 until the game was excluzieve on x box
= treason , so no tanks.
+ i not buy any hd versions , ( only hd monsterhunter intrested )
al other games = ps2 i not buy old games i have already .

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